Bug 157506

Summary:	Watching video with mplayer causes X to crash
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Miikka Salminen <miikka.salminen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	crash	CC:	l.lunak
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Miikka Salminen 2008-02-09 12:13:44 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Watching videos with command line mplayer in KDE 4.0.1 causes X.org to crash. Apparently this happens only with video (playing audio only files works fine).

I have tried opening many different kinds of video files with different codecs with mplayer, and the each time the following happens:
- mplayer seems to load the video correctly without complaining about anything
- a video window (with black inside it) appears on the desktop
- after this X.org immediately crashes and restarts

Other players like VLC and Kaffeine seem to play videos without any problems, so I'm not sure if this is a KDE or an mplayer bug. However, mplayer works fine in KDE 3.5.8, so this is probably some kind of compatibility issue.

I have compositing features of KWin enabled.
My mplayer version is dev-SVN-r25189-4.1.3 (self compiled).
I have two displays and the configuration is managed by NVidia's TwinView.

Here's a backtrace from the end of Xorg.log:
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c95d1]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/bin/X [0x817e4ad]
3: /usr/bin/X [0x817aaff]
4: /usr/bin/X(CompositeGlyphs+0x9a) [0x81613aa]
5: /usr/bin/X [0x8169029]
6: /usr/bin/X [0x8164425]
7: /usr/bin/X [0x815765e]
8: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x1aa) [0x808f47a]
9: /usr/bin/X(main+0x495) [0x8076f05]
10: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7d79050]
11: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e1) [0x8076241]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Comment 1 Oscar Megia Lopez 2008-03-11 23:09:50 UTC

I have the same problem with (KDE 3.5.5 "release 45.8" , openSUSE 10.2)

Linux (i686) release 2.6.18.8-0.9-default

Compiler  Target: i586-suse-linux

Playing a video with xine, noatun, kaffeine or mplayer, sometimes crash X, kill all programs and goes to the kdm login screen. I have an ATI Radeon X1300 128Mb with the official ATI display driver version 8.45.4.

Regards
Oscar

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2008-04-29 10:12:27 UTC

KDE does not develop the X server.

Comment 3 Eugene 2008-05-25 02:04:31 UTC

...I tried also VLC. And my player just closed with message about bad memory allocation in X... without crashing a system. When I turned off the SHADOWS and TRANSPARENCY in personal settings my video players working again.